Annual Comedy Contest: What does the future of comedy look like? I didn't expect a group of young people to play it
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In 2015, "Happy Comedians" turned out to be a comedian loved by many audiences, taking turns to appear, cruel and fierce elimination system, endless comedy works, quickly grasped the needs of the audience, and became the most successful comedy program in recent years.
The comedians represented by Shen Teng, Jia Ling, Song Xiaobao, and Yue Yunpeng have supported half of the comedy industry, and the comedy industry has naturally become the world of four major groups: Liaoning Folk Art Troupe, Big Bowl Entertainment, Happy Twist, and Deyun Society. Almost all the Spring Festival Gala stages, variety shows, comedy programs, film and television works, they are indispensable.
However, behind the booming development of the comedy market is the deterioration of comedy programs and works.
The rating of "Happy Comedians Season 1" on Douban is as high as 8.3 points, but with the intervention of capital, the reputation of happy comedians has dropped again and again, and the works on the stage are not as good as one. The seventh season of happy comedians in early 2021, the Douban score has dropped to a pitiful 3.4 points. More than half of the audience gave the show a one-star rating, and the accumulated value of "Happy Comedians" has disappeared.
The audience has become intolerable about the animation of the comedy's diseaseless groaning, often selling misery, forcibly turning, and happy and sad ending.
Comedy ended up crying so badly that it became the standard for comedians.
Should comedy laugh or cry?
It has become the most confusing question for the audience.
Comedy is not impossible to move people, but when Shen Teng, who is happy and twisted, amplifies the tragic model in "Happy Comedian", Jia Ling, Song Xiaobao, Jia Bing, and even the Deyun Society all rise up and follow suit.
For a time, comedy with joy and sorrow was in full swing.
This directly led to Xiao Shenyang's withdrawal from the comedy circle.
Xiao Shenyang once said that he would no longer act in sketches, because he could not study good baggage, there was no particularly good thing, and it was not fresh. Now the sketches are all happy and sad, and I don't like it. And he likes works that can make the audience laugh from beginning to end.
What Xiao Shenyang said is not without reason, many comedy works are sensational for the sake of sadness, the first half is forced to be funny, and the second half is forced to turn, in a vain attempt to win the applause and support of the audience by watching the crying audience.
Of course, they have forgotten that the work should have the essence of logic and comedy - whether a work is good or bad, in the final analysis, it still depends on whether it comes from life and is close to life.
In the "Gold Medal Comedy Class", Chen Peisi also criticized the turning point development of comedy works many times:
Now the setting of the comedy plot is not connected before and after, it seems a bit arbitrary, the advancement of the plot is not solid from the character, the event is generated, the emphasis on baggage is more, the emphasis on psychological processes and the real feelings of the characters is too little. The personality of the character is also difficult to stand.
In this environment, just when Shen Teng, Jia Ling, Song Xiaobao, and Yue Yunpeng Jiang lang were exhausted, they never expected that the 271 "Annual Comedy Competition" appeared in a dark horse posture and swept away the comedy haze with a clear stream.
Should comedy laugh or cry? I never expected to let a group of "eighteen-line" stars play to understand.
The actors in the "Annual Comedy Contest" can be said to have no popularity, and the only one who can get his hands on it is probably "Jin Jing", after all, she is the only actor among all the actors who has ever appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
Among these actors, some of them claim to have participated in more than 20 variety shows, but it is difficult to find him in these more than 20 variety shows.
More actors are also worried about paying rent.
Someone is preparing to transform, ready to give up comedy jobs and switch to other industries.
Some people are ready to find a job through this variety show, looking forward to having a play to perform.
Their experiences have become the experiences of the characters in their own works. For example, Jiang Long: He said that he was a waist actor and had dramas to play, but he couldn't get up and down. His starring role in "Dream Showbiz" has become a joke in his own work, which makes people laugh and laugh, but also with a little sourness.
It is such a group of young people, but they have made the best comedy shows in recent years, and they have also made hilarious comedies.
Comedy is back to what it was: funny, or absurd, or moving, or profound, or satirical...
Guo Dabao, Liu Siwei, and Jiang Shimeng's "Internet Physical Examination" fiercely satirizes the unbearable many criticisms in the network industry: too long advertisements, brainwashing advertisements, malicious pop-up advertisements, inducing members to buy, inducing downloading APP, advanced on-demand, acceleration packages, "acting" live streaming with goods... The problems that almost all Internet users encounter are vividly displayed by this comedy. Many netizens said after reading it: I would like to call it the best satirical and hilarious sketch in the era of Internet big data.
Zong Juntao, Yang Yuguang, and Qiang Dongdong's "Sanmao Defense War" starts from a small place, that is, it tells the story of three hairs, but under the serious interpretation of the three actors, it is not only funny but also sad. Obviously, it was a sad ending, but it made Xu Zheng, Huang Bo and other five judges laugh.
DaSuo and Sun Tianyu's "Idol Waiter" is simply a perfect reproduction of various selection routines of various idol trainees, and by hiring a hotel waiter, the various messes in the inner fish are satirized over and over again, and they are called the most courageous sketches.
What "that fish can't work, that fish is finished" "Leap sliding vocational and technical training school", "I'm still just a simple big boy" what "meal maker", I believe many netizens will shout loudly, right?
You see, this is the charm of a good comedy work, starting from the heart, close to life, because with empathy, which audience will not smile?
People tend to say that the core of comedy is tragedy. But the form of comedy must not be reduced to tragedy.
Jiang Long and Zhang Chi's "The Last Lesson" can be said to be the best in the works of the "Annual Comedy Competition", and it can also be called the best example of the integration of all tragico-comedy works.
Jiang Long in "The Last Lesson", an excellent theater school graduate, because there is no drama to shoot, he is reduced to playing a zombie in the escape room, and as a result, he meets his former teacher Zhang Chi and stages a large-scale social death scene.
The work is essentially full of the tone of "selling miserably".
But Jiang Long and Zhang Chi are unconventional, one is struggling and fighting, the other is immersed in "teaching" and does not know, through the contrast of character personality opposition, staged a good story that is ridiculous, and the ending does not take the old road of selling misery and sensationalism, and is full of reverie. "The Last Lesson" successfully combines funny, touching, profound, human and other elements organically, which is endlessly evocative.
In Xian Yun's view, comedy should laugh or cry, and Jiang Long and Zhang Chi's "Last Lesson" gives the best answer.
The intention of the work can be high, but the form of expression and content can always be portrayed from a small place, rather than forcibly promoting or sensationalizing.
The works in the "Annual Comedy Competition" often only start from one point and extend the baggage of comedy, such as Jin Jing tienan's "When a Man Steps into the Civil Affairs Bureau", which only describes the fear of marriage on the day of registration.
The woman Shi Ce in Wang Hao Shi Ce's "Romantic Leak" simply wants a romantic birthday.
Li Fei, Song Muzi, and He Wenjun's "Hard Choice" is about a takeaway, but a group of people play tricks in a serious way, and finally end up with an absurd ending... Have somebody rolling in the aisles!
Comedy should laugh or cry? The future of comedy should be the same, And Xiao Yun believes that the young people of "The Annual Comedy Competition" should play it clearly.
Zhao Lirong, Zhao Benshan, Chen Peisi, and Feng Gong have all left popular works in their own times, and now young comedians should know what they should do! As Zhang Chi said: In his acting career, it is good to leave a work of his own.